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Review
by Kozo: |
This fluffy actioner comes from Raymond Chow and Golden Harvest
and pushes one of their new turks, prettyboy Stephen Fung.
He plays H20, a free-spirited and somewhat daffy cop who’s
hand-picked to be a “Sunshine Cop.” He and his dubbed partner
Sammy (Ken Cheung) are publicity tools for the police. They’re
supposed to fight crime, attend public events, and look handsome
and dashing. Basically, we’re talking law enforcement popstars.
After some initial success where
the two kick ass and look handsome, they run afoul of annoying
press and misunderstandings which help ruin their squeaky-clean
image. However, when evil bastard Andrew Lin holds a school
hostage, the two can regain their public standing and “exercise
the spirit of the Sunshine Cops.” At least that’s what the
cover artwork says.
This film (if you could call it that)
is absolute mist, betraying HK’s worst filmmaking problem:
screenwriting. Despite a potentially rich and amusing storyline,
the film never capitalizes. Perhaps it would have been better
to concentrate on satirizing HK’s pop-star driven media, but
the detours into personal relationships and family serve no
real purpose.
Thank god there’s action! Action
director Ma Yuk-Sing gets some good ass-kicking action out
of his two young stars, which is great because without it
the film would prove ultimately unwatchable. With that in
mind, I managed to forgive the movie, but someday I may not
be so kind to other HK films of its ilk. For fans of eighties
HK Cinema this movie will be disappointing, but it’s great
if you’re a fan of Stephen Fung. However, I believe most of
his fans are fourteen year-old girls. (Kozo 1999) |
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